In the article that you posted, there is no mention of villagers hiding Fatah terrorists. It clearly says:
Israel's goal in the operation was to demolish houses in Palestinian villages located south of Hebron as a show of force to preempt future violence.[4] Israel hoped that the residents of those villages would appeal to King Hussein to tame Fatah and other Palestinian militant groups.
So the village was randomly attacked?
Really?
No relation to the hiding of terrorists in the place?
Just randomly picked and attacked?
Perhaps you should try to be on the receiving end, the way I've been when Israel attacked.
Whenever someone out there is on the receiving end from Israel, it is indeed a certainty that Israel was on the receiving end before it.
My own house was bombed and my mother got almost killed. Where were the Fatah fighters ? not one single fighter to be seen in or around our around entire area.
1) An incident, picked the wrong place, got the wrong intelligence etc.
More unlikely then:
2) Terrorists were indeed in the area, wearing civilian clothes as usual and only attacking when they're in their launching spot.
If you do a google search, you will find dozens of examples where targetting civilians was used by Israel as "show of force" in order to put pressure on enemy leaders. Of course you will not find any of this mentioned in pro-Israeli web sites.
Do you mean to the extreme anti-Israeli websites that one finds when using google?
Also give me a good reason for Israel to have littered south Lebanon with cluster bombs before pulling out in 2006.
We've already been in this argument, I'm not returning on my statements and you are free to look it up in this same forum.
Not at all. The houses were usually owned by the head of the familiy which is usually the father. The member of the family who had committed acts of violence against Isael was almost always one of the sons. However, the entire family was punished and left out in the street.
And this is when you're getting far from reality.
The houses are
usually owned by the terrorist himself, since most of them are men and Muslim men leave their house once they find a woman, which the terrorists usually have.
In the cases when the house is not signed on the terrorist's name, and those are cases that are in the absolute minority, the part of the house that belongs to the terrorist (his room for example) is destroyed, and the rest of the house is left as it is.
This is simply another form of deterrent against terrorists and is in no way collective punishing the entire terrorist's family, which, in most of the cases, incites the terrorist into the Anti-Israeli and sometimes anti-Jewish hatred required to take such acts.